Natalia Aleksandrovna Fixel

She received the basic skills of ballet from Galina Balashova, the soloist of the Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre. She was trained in modern dance at the International Summer Workshops of Contemporary Dance in Czechoslovakia. In summer 1991 she participated in the International Seminar of Choreographers at the American Dance Festival (ADF), USA. She passed a course at the London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS), Great Britain, where she was taught by such famous teachers as Peter Sparling, Mary Ivlin, and Caren Burgin. She has created about twelve one-act pieces and a plenty of concert performances. She worked as a visiting teacher and choreographer in various cities of Russia and abroad (in Prague). She took part in films and TV programmes as a dancer and a choreographer.

Since 1982 she was the Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of the Natalia Fixel Dance Theatre. The Theatre participated successfully in the Festivals of Contemporary Arts in Russia and abroad and took part in films and TV programmes.

A co-operation and friendship with jazzman Vladimir Chekasin was very important for the Theatre. Such films as "Jazz in pocket", "Abyss", and "movement film" "Bolero" (the 1st prize of the "Post-Montreux-92" International Festival of TV Programmes) were produced in collaboration with Chekasin. The dancers of the Theatre also participated in P.Lungin's film "Taxi Blues" (music by Chekasin, prize-winner of Cannes 1991 Cinema Festival).

Since 1993 the Theatre was working under support of the Novosibirsk State University Arts Center. The Contemporary Dance Studio was created, where Natalia Fixel and the other dancers of the Theatre were teaching ballet, modern dance, contemporary and jazz dances for the University students.

The most significant performances of the Theatre:

1989

"White Sunday"

1990

"Bird Rondo"

1991

"A Few Words in Interier"

1992

"Bolero, or Provincial Tragedy",
music by Vladimir Chekasin;
dancers: Elena Efimova,Natalia Fixel, Julia Fixel.
Later the performance was transferred into the "movement film" "Bolero".

1993

"Ladies' Tango"

1994

"Euridices",
music by S.Gubaydulina, V.Dvoskin, T.Blanko, V.Chekasin, J.S.Bach;
dancers: Elena Volodina, Elena Efimova, Irina Lisova, Natalia Fixel, Julia Fixel.

1995

"Dushechka",
Natalia Fixel's solo dance perfomance on the base of A.P.Chekhov's stories. The libretto author and stage-manager -- Viktor Gulchenko (Moscow).

1996

"Blue Period",
music by G.Anokhin è Sh.Veresh;
dancers: Natalia Kalashnikova, Eugenia Lyakhova, Oksana Poltavets, Julia Fixel.

1997

"Without Don Juan",
music by a young Novosibirsk composer Roman Stolyar;
dancers: Ekaterina Basalaeva, Elena Efimova, Natalia Kalashnikova, Oksana Poltavets, Natalia Fixel, Julia Fixel.

Since 1998 Natalia Fixel lives and works in Moscow.
She contributes to Chamber Ballet "Moscow".

Our first MPEG-film: chopin.mpg 3:34, 4.8 Mb
Chopin, "Mazurka", dancer Natalia Fixel.